François Louis Français

Born: 1814

Death: 1897

Biography:

François Louis Français (November 17, 1814 – 1897) was a French landscape painter. He was born at Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as an office-boy with a bookseller. After a few years of hard struggle, during which he made a precarious living by drawing on stone and designing woodcut vignettes for boo...